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発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈsɛv.ɚ/
• 韻: -ɛvə(ɹ)

動詞

sever (third-person singular simple present severs, present participle severing, simple past and past participle severed)

1. (transitive) To cut free.

   After he graduated, he severed all links to his family.

   to sever the head from the body

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 13:49:

     The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.

   • 1999, Eminem, Role Model:

     That I just severed the main vein with a chainsaw and I'm in pain?

2. (intransitive) To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

     No more can I be seuered from your side

   • 1918, Rudyard Kipling, “A Retired Gentleman”, in The Eyes of Asia, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 4:

     How great then was my anguish at being severed from my Regiment after thirty-three years!

3. (intransitive) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 9:4:

     The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt.

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XVII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     They claimed the right of severing in their challenges.

4. (law) To disconnect; to disunite; to terminate.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     sever an estate in joint tenancy

同意語

• becut
• cut off

派生語

• severable
• severally

関連する語

• separate

Further reading

• “sever”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sever”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “sever”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• 'verse, -verse, reves, serve, veers, verse